If this week has felt like a bit too much European policymaking at the top of this bulletin, apologies. But the debate around the draft Copyright Directive, and particularly its Article 13, is something that’s being watched closely around the world. By now you may know that yesterday’s vote in the European Parliament did not go the way much of the music industry and its allies had hoped: 318 votes to reject the directive in its current form, versus 278 to approve it, with 31 abstentions.
Reactions from the music industry fall into two camps: those rolling up their sleeves for the next stage of amending the proposed legislation before it gets a full debate in the European Parliament, and those training their fire on technology companies (Google in particular) and decrying yesterday’s vote as a wasted opportunity.
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